Theodore "teddy" roosevelt, soldier, president and out-doorsman, once summed up his vision for America as a "doctrine of the strenuous life". Hunting lay at the heart of that doctrine: the virile business of learning to shoot straight, to track beasts through brutal heat or cold and to master "buck fever"-a nervous excitement felt in the face of prey that must be suppressed by effort of will. Years before he declined to blast a bear tethered to a tree by his hosts on a 1902 hunt, spawning admiring newspaper cartoons and the worldwide teddy-bear industry, Roosevelt crafted and promoted a "credo of fair chase".
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